
Lent's Ember Days: Russia-Ukraine war points to need for 'reconciliation'
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Each year, Lent's Ember Days carry a special significance — they come from church practices in the early centuries A.D. and each day has a unique prayer of focus.
"Ember Days [highlight] the fact that the church itself has a vocation, and that is to be an instrument of God for the spread of his kingdom," said Fr. Austin of Dallas, Texas.
Given today's "polarized" and "fractured" world — and pointing to the war in Ukraine as tangible evidence of that — Fr. Austin said we need "the ministry of reconciliation" to spread throughout the world.
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